vds Port Group out of ports
My vds has plenty of free ports by some of the port groups have 2 or fewer ports. If a port group runs out of ports, will it automatically get more from the vds, or do I have to specifically maintain...
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I have a port group on a vds in 5.0. Autoexpand is not enabled. What happens if my vds has plenty of free ports, but I run out of ports on a port group on that vds. I can't power on more VMs?
View Articleexplain Teaming Policy in simple words
Dear Team, request you to explain me nic teaming policy in simple english/words. regardsMr Vmware
View ArticlevSwitch Port Group Free Ports
If my VDS has free ports available, but the port group on it does not have free ports, what will happen when a VM needs to fail over to that port group from another ESXi host? Will it automatically...
View ArticleInstall Cisco Nexus 1000v,use control and packet vlan
Hi,I have question for vmware.I want to install the Cisco Nexus 1000V but it is must have created 3 vlans: management,control and packet vlan. I can be individually configured vlans to control and...
View ArticleAdding Secondary Management NIC to ESXi Host
Hi, We currently have request from a customer to add a secondary management NIC to two ESXi servers so both ourselves and the customer can connect to the hosts if vCenter becomes unavailable. Can...
View ArticlePing lost Management IP - Driver for Emulex
hi guys I have a vDS using 4 vmnics as you can see below vmnic2 0000:16:00.04 elxnet Up 1000Mbps Full 34:40:b5:e3:c8:fa 1500 Emulex Corporation OneConnect 10Gb NIC (be3)vmnic3...
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upgrade ESX4 to 5.5 ,different methods
upgrade ESX4 to 5.5 ,different methods 1.update manger2.Interactive installer is there any other methodswhats the main difference ,between this
View ArticleNetworking advice wanted - ESXi 5.5 hosting dual NIC VMs on DMZ
This is the first time I've set up an ESXi 5.5 server on a DMZ, and I want to verify what my networking configuration should be. Here's what I currently have - 5.5 host has 2 NICs in a standard vSwitch...
View ArticleWhat's the best way to change the management vmkernel IP address on a vDS?
Hello everyone,I'm trying to change the IP address of the management vmkernel interface with as few steps and downtime as possible.The interface is part of a Distributed Switch and the host is part of...
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ESXi 5.5 Home Lab - Networking Questions (Overall Setup / Configuration / DNS...
Hi, I am fairly new to vSphere / ESXi and have been trying to setup a home lab for testing / learning purposes. I would like to make sure my network is sound. I created a diagram to help illustrate...
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Configure an interconnected (SQL data-) network between two hosts
Hello, I have a dual-host environment which will run three web-servers and one SQL-server and I want a dedicated virtual network for the SQL traffic (meaning the virtual machines will have two network...
View ArticleVirtual machines can ping throughout the network, but nothing can ping into...
In more detail, we are running ESXi 5.1 on our host servers. We are then running a vSphere client on one of our client machines that can reach the host servers through a Cisco 3750 switch. So it's,...
View ArticleUsing vMotion with vDS
I am attempting to setup a vDS; first time doing so. I normally just use vSS but I have the opportunity to "play" with vDS with a new cluster I am building. One concern that i have and have not been...
View ArticleRedundancy with vSwitch Uplink
Folks,we have few VMs running on one our servers. We want to connect this server to the network in most resilient manner. Customer want us to take into account both link and device(mainly access...
View ArticlevSphere Distributed Switch question
Hello, I'm hoping someone could clarify some points for me regarding vSphere Distributed Switches. I'm relatively new to the vSphere and this is purely for my own understanding, so any replies will be...
View ArticleThe same mac on vmk0 and vmnic2
Hi all!I have a situation that I'm not unerstand. I've ESXi 5.1 host with 4 physical nics. My Cisco alarms me that I have duplicate mac address on a port. I've cheked my VMWare configuration and see...
View ArticleVC 5.5 & Nexus 1000v - Migrate host from mgmt-uplink to mgmt-uplink2 fail
Hi all, We are trying to migrate 1 host from 1 uplink port-profile, letps say mgmt-uplink, to another, mgmt-uplink2, with same configuration. Why? Because a port-profile default max-port was configured...
View ArticleNetworks Needed for vSphere
What are all the possible network types that I might need for a vsphere deployment?-Network for vmotion traffic-network for management traffic-networks for virtual machine traffic-network for nfs...
View ArticleBest cabling option for NFS
I am running NFS in a test lab. I have a single NetApp 2240 storage system running NFS. I have only one physical switch to work with, but as many switch ports as I need. The 2240 has two redundant...
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